Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . conditions imposed by thecity, namely, that the building should beexclusively of iron and glass. Anotherplan, by Mr. Eidlitz, contemplated a sus-pension roof, so as to obviate the difficulty
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . conditions imposed by thecity, namely, that the building should beexclusively of iron and glass. Anotherplan, by Mr. Eidlitz, contemplated a sus-pension roof, so as to obviate the difficultyof spanning great widths by arches. ^ardus submitt(<l a design for a circularbuilding, consisting of successive colon-. nades, placed one over tlu oilier, somewhatresembling the coliseum at Hume, andinvolving a new and ingenious method ofjoining. A plan was also proposed, byMr. J. W. Adams, consisting of a greatoctagonal vault or dome, supported by ribsmade of fasces or clusters of presentation of so many plans, eachof a different character, and some of themof great beauty and originality, made thetask of selection very difficult. Finally,after much consultation, the jilan accejitedwas that of Messrs. Carstensen and Gilde-meister, of New York, the latter gentle-man being recently from Copenhagen,where he was well-known as the designerof some of the principal public works in that city. After tlie final adoption of aplan, which was in August, 1852, no timewas lost in putting the work under piece of ground for the erection of thebuilding, in Reservoir Square, granted bytlie city, was somewhat unfavorable forarchitectural purposes; but in other re-spects it was quite favorable, and the
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